.gpt
Is .gpt a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.gpt is contested: 3 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are Identity Digital, OpenAI and Link Freedom Group. XYZ Registry named .gpt as a backup string for its .bro application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
Who is applying, and what they run today
One of the three already run TLDs, 14.80M names between them. Link Freedom Group and OpenAI run none.
Will names sell?
Rides the AI chatbot craze, but the term is tied to one company's product name, so most serious projects will hesitate to build on it.
Last round the AI scored the 2012 strings blind to their fate. Strings it scored 60 or more hold a median 27,168 names today; those under 30, a median of 30. .gpt’s closest 2012 strings hold .bot 23K, .cloud 552K and .ott 4.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .bot, held 23,099 names, June 2026. .cloud held 551,867; .ott held 4. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: a short technical term-of-art for an autonomous software agent, adopted as primary identity by the same tooling-vendor buyer class, in a category defined by the builders rather than by any dictionary.
Same bet: claim the one word naming the era's defining compute paradigm, wagering every provider in a fast-forming technology category wants its identity on the category label itself.
Same bet structurally rather than topically: an insider three-letter acronym for a delivery technology, wagering the jargon graduates into a mainstream label operators will brand themselves with.
Where they meet elsewhere
Identity Digital and XYZ Registry face each other in 77 contests this round, .gpt included.
- Identity Digital × XYZ Registry
- Identity Digital × Link Freedom Group
- XYZ Registry × Link Freedom Group
- Identity Digital × OpenAI
- Link Freedom Group × OpenAI
indie AI tool builders, chatbot wrapper startups, and domain speculators chasing the current shorthand for generative AI; a secondary pool of AI agencies and plugin makers wanting an instantly legible tech label.
What a .gpt domain is
.gpt is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our AI & tech category. 3 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .gpt domain extension real yet?
.gpt is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. It is a string applicants have put forward in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, the process that decides whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .gpt domain?
You can’t yet. A .gpt name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .gpt was .bot, delegated on 5 December 2015.
Is .gpt a real TLD?
Not yet. .gpt is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .gpt is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- XYZ Registry · first recordedICANN
- 2 applicants · first recordedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now confirmedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“LFGL2683T-T66067 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-101 OOL2614T-T65958 · OPENAI OPCO, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-101 PTL2645T-T34145 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-101”ICANN
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LFGL2683T-T66067 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-101 OOL2614T-T65958 · OPENAI OPCO, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-101 PTL2645T-T34145 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-101 XL2625T-T96876 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .bro · Deactivated
“.gpt · AI & Tech · “Tools for every challenge.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string benefits from enormous cultural currency: 'GPT' has become a consumer shorthand for AI chatbots, and a large wave of products and side projects have adopted GPT-suffixed names, so registration volume on hype and price is plausible. It is not in the 50-69 band because the string is widely understood as referencing a specific company's AI product branding rather than a generic category, which suppresses serious primary-identity use: a funded startup adopting name.gpt as its main address invites trademark exposure and signals derivative positioning, and by analogy with brand-adjacent hype strings the aftermarket tends to be speculative rather than sustained. It is above the 10-29 band because, unlike pure vanity strings, there is a real and currently large builder population for whom the label is instantly legible and useful for tools, demos, and wrappers, giving it genuine short-term end-use utility. Applicant context: the applicant filed a very large portfolio of strings (per the verified facts), which says nothing negative but suggests a volume-registration business model consistent with hype-driven rather than category-standard adoption. Main market uncertainty (launch assumed): whether 'GPT' remains the consumer shorthand for AI over the next 5 years or fades as branding shifts to agents/assistants and other model names, which would decay demand quickly; enforcement posture toward GPT-branded third-party names is the other unknown.